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Trumpington

Trumpington is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, mostly located in Cambridge, with a small southern area of the village extending into the South Cambridgeshire district.

Trumpington
Trumpington · Markus G. Klötzer
The place

Trumpington is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, mostly located in Cambridge, with a small southern area of the village extending into the South Cambridgeshire district. As of the 2021 UK census, the village had a population of 12,393 people.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Trumpington

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Cambridge

    The University of Cambridge is a collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209, the University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's third-oldest university in continuous operation.

    3.5 km · collegiate public research university in Cambridge, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Trinity College

    Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, Trinity is one of the largest Cambridge colleges, with the largest financial endowment of any college at Oxford or Cambridge.

    3.7 km · constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    King's College

    King's College, formally The King's College of Our Lady and Saint Nicholas in Cambridge, is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. The college lies beside the River Cam and faces out onto King's Parade in the centre of the city.

    3.4 km · college of the University of Cambridge · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Christ's College

    Christ's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England. The college includes the master, the fellows of the college, and about 450 undergraduate and 250 graduate students.

    3.6 km · college of the University of Cambridge · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Cambridge University Library

    Cambridge University Library is the main research library of the University of Cambridge. It is the largest of over 100 libraries within the university.

    3.5 km · main research library of the University of Cambridge in England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Fitzwilliam Museum

    The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge.

    3 km · art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St John's College

    St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, founded by the Tudor matriarch Lady Margaret Beaufort. In constitutional terms, the college is a charitable corporation established by a charter dated 9 April 1511.

    3.8 km · constituent college of the University of Cambridge · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Anglia Ruskin University

    Anglia Ruskin University is a public research university in the region of East Anglia, United Kingdom. Its origins date back to the Cambridge School of Art, founded in 1858 by William John Beamont, a Fellow of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge.

    3.6 km · university in East Anglia, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    King's College Chapel

    King's College Chapel is the chapel of King's College in the University of Cambridge. It is considered one of the finest examples of Perpendicular Gothic architecture and features the world's largest fan vault.

    3.5 km · chapel in King's College, University of Cambridge, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Corpus Christi College

    Corpus Christi College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. From the late 14th century to the early 19th century it was also commonly known as Bene't College.

    3.3 km · college of the University of Cambridge · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Trumpington

Airports
London Stansted (STN), 33 km · London Luton (LTN), 47 km · London Heathrow (LHR), 87 km
Stations
Cambridge railway station, 3 km · Shelford railway station, 3.5 km
  • Luton, Luton → Trumpington
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 15m · £5–7
  • London → Trumpington
    76 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Trumpington
    122 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £14–18
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Trumpington

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Trumpington. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextMap of places with Wikivoyage articles nearby Grantchester: Take a day trip to enjoy the countryside and have scones and tea at The Orchard.

From Wikivoyage: Cambridge, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    192 km
  2. 02
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    348 km
  3. 03
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    350 km
  4. 04
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    511 km
  5. 05
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    546 km

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Around it

Next door to Trumpington

  • Cambridgecity in Cambridgeshire, England3.9 km
  • Grantchestervillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK1.1 km
  • Bartonvillage and civil parish in the South Cambridgeshire district of Cambridgeshire, England3.7 km
  • Little Shelfordvillage in Cambridgeshire, England3.6 km
  • Hauxtonvillage in Cambridgeshire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Great Shelfordvillage in Cambridgeshire, England3.2 km